Monday, February 7, 2011

Juliet's Quilt

My sister "commissioned" me to make a quilt for her long-time best friend, who was having her first baby. But the parents-to-be weren't finding out the baby's gender ahead of time—and neither were some friends of ours who are due in March. Since I wanted to make two baby quilts, and I didn't want to make both of them gender-neutral, why not take a chance and make one boy quilt and one girl quilt? My Modern Meadow quilt was the boy version, and this one, made via Cara's excellent Urban Lattice quilt-along, would be the girly version.

One of the babies is here now, and she's a girl, so little Juliet gets the Urban Lattice quilt. It's all done, it's washed and dried and crinkly soft, and it will be in the mail later today, headed to its new home.

The quilting is a long-arm pattern called "Wind Swirls," and I can't imagine a more perfect quilting design for these Far Far Away prints. It's like a magical breeze just picked you up and dropped you into a fantasy fairy-tale world. You see? It's just happy. : )

The back is mostly Kona Stone, with an angled strip of half-square triangles in the FFA prints. I thought about just piecing a straight strip down the back, but with all the angles lines on the front, I thought this would be more fun. (More work too, but worth it.)

I'll be sad to see this one go. But since my sister was paying me to make one of these quilts for her friend, and that was the first baby due anyway, I designed both quilts with this particular baby and mommy in mind. And this Urban Lattice quilt, especially, strikes me as just perfect for them. I've known the mother for many years myself, since she's so close to my sister, and I've done a fair amount of design work for her—I even designed her wedding invitations and her baby shower invites. She's got a great sense of style and I think she genuinely appreciates beautiful handmade things. So I know this quilt is headed to a good home and that it will be right where it belongs. Can't ask for much more than that.

Hi Krysta - Thanks so much! I did change the proportions of the original pattern. My blocks were 8" square (finished) instead of 12". My lattice strips were 0.75" wide finished, and the cream background strips were 1.25" wide finished. And then whatever was left over was how big the print squares were. : )

I also paper-pieced mine in a different way than Cara did - see this post for more information: http://freshlypieced.blogspot.com/2011/01/lattice-work.html

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